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just FYI to those curious,
One of if not the first game to successfully make a monk class based on the Shaolin Temple was Everquest. Everquest 2 also has the monk. It is the most unique class...

comparing speed and power is not the way to approach it.

Some people who have no weight advantage win by speed, but everytime they hit, the hit is effective. So is speed or power really more...

Kinda like that Japanese kiai master who could control people from several feet away...until he fought in a real fight where nothing worked at all?

It has like 5 million views on youtube. I don't...

The expendables was a bomb here in Korea. I bet they didn't say that in the news.

On opening week the theatre was so empty they didn't even charge for tickets.



On another note I have a...

The Duan ranking means a lot more in China than belts or whatever means in the US. I am surprised anyone would even draw a parallel between these two...


Chinese wushu is studied on a physical...

My background is in baguazhang. based on interest in further developing fa jin, I recently took up candle training, but I want to make sure I'm doing it right.

I noticed at first that what I...

I really like how Japanese actually take the time to express interest in Chinese martial arts. That's cool:cool:

they always make analogies like that it takes 3 tons of force, or like the force of a car accident, or the force of godzilla punching you in the nuts.

although he's explaining about chi, i have a...

that fight science show reminds me of when you overhear a conversation between two people debating about something they don't understand fully.

I did stumble upon this website selling some iron palm training dvds, but the way it is is marketed is really, really...lacking of taste. It feels like a commercial that comes on at 2am when...

No worries. You sound like a very humble person. Just be sure to keep yourself objective:) We all have a lot of surprising things to learn, perhaps even from your own methods.

Traditional martial arts takes more time to develop, assuming it's not garbage training. It's really that simple. I really enjoy the fact that many people are interested in Chinese martial arts, but...

I enjoy your practical approach to iron palm,
but I think it's a little naive to criticize other training like that. There is probably more to the training than just to break coconuts or do...

^^^ to the poster above
Zhao Qing Jian trains traditionally a lot too, it's ok that you didn't know. But he is the real thing as well as also a modern champion wushu wise.
Also, he does hurt...

I have to second you there. I see very few san shou fighters using something Chinese that doesn't exist elsewhere.

wtf??? Do you like to be a *******? Sorry if what I wrote was silly. Well maybe it was the way i said it, but you didn't have to act like that....Much of the research in kung fu is on the internal...

heres my stories

i've witnessed a hung gar teacher fall off a 25 foot stack of chairs and kick them out of the way and landed softly.

I've been hit by the short explosive power and the long...

thanks all, that was really helpful(and to Gene-yeah I meant the lashing staff, I had no idea what the name was)

Anyone practice this? My teacher brought one in, and it is about the only Gongfu(or I think specifically Shaolin) weapon that I've never come across.

Can't seem to find any forms or details on it...

stretching also gives strength. Try practicing the splits (front/back) slowly, everyday for 15 minutes. Hold your palms out in opposite directions with your arms straight and try to hold it up. you...

they key factor that makes chinese strength training work for gong fu is the fact that you develop all muscles, not those specific ones that come from weights. (due to the wide range of *natural*...

hip hop and kung fu, however funny it may sound, is an excellent cultural exchange. that is, not to the point of exploitation but that's another story ;-)

the first thing i saw was Elton John hahaha

sorry about that ^^

I do have a story about one of his disciples. He's sorta like a family friend but we don't talk to him much. One time he was setting up for lion dance. He stacked up these chairs to like 30 feet...